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  Date / Time: 1/29/2009 10:10 PM UTC

  Contact Barbara Holt - Safety and Violence Prevention Expert

  Barbara Holt was on our program last week, January 22nd and I failed to get her contact information posted.  She is a highly trained and proficient consultant in the field of classroom safety.  Her company, Barbara Holt Facilitators Inc., works with school adminstrators, faculty, students and parents in all areas of bullying and violence prevention education.
  
  You can reach Barbara by email: BrBrHolt@yahoo.com or phone (281) 221-6362.
  • Tags:
  • Barbara Holt
  • Safety in schools
  • bully-free classroom
  • i-Safe America
  • Kathi Frank
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• Date / Time: 1/29/2009 9:53 PM UTC

  Contact information for Anne Gillis

  Today, Anne Gillis was our guest today.  Her book "EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at least Easier Living" challenges the assumption that life is always hard.  Her work is sincere, but not serious.  Gillis contends that life is not as hard as we make it; it is time to lighten up and enjoy life.  She says, "Our work and lives are an expression of love, not a chance to punish ourselves with relentless doing."
  
  You may reach Anne by email: Anne@AnneGillis.com or by phone (281) 419-1775.  Her website is www.AnneGillis.com where you will find a wealth of information about the concept of an EZosophist and products that will support you on that journey.
  
  • Tags:
  • EZosophy
  • Anne Gillis
  • Anne Sermons Gillis
  • The Woodlands real e
  • easy living
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• Original Air Date: 1/29/2009 6:00 PM UTC

  Life is Really Easy (not Hard)

  Anne Sermons Gillis, a Woodlands resident, is the foremost international expert on EASE. She speaks all over the world as an ambassador for change in the common attitude of life being hard. Chapter I of the book is titled "You never get anywhere when you go on a Guilt Trip". Quoting from Chapter III, "Self-help literature, technology and psychology give us tools to create physical and emotional realities that support easy and abundant living. Even so, many intelligent and level-headed people bear mental and emotional suffering needlessly." Learn how to change from being a "Hard-aholic" to an "EZosophist" by listening to this program.
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  • Anne Sermons Gillis
  • Kathi Frank
  • Woodlands
  • Author
  • EZosophy
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• Date / Time: 1/25/2009 9:15 PM UTC

  How about a Bully Free world???

  Barbara Holt knows more about school safety than anyone else I have ever known.  Her ideas about maintaining a safe school environment are spectacular.  Those concepts are not limited to school campuses, but can be brought into the workplace as well.
  
  The truth is real estate in The Woodlands is supported by the efforts made in the school campus.  Everyone wants their children to attend a school that is both safe and educationally challenging.  The Woodlands school campuses have a fantastic record for offering such an environment for the community's children.  As part of the CISD system, there are many opportunities to bring a wide variety of programs to the residents.
  
  Real estate buyers carefully examine the history of a school system prior to choosing a neighborhood.  It is a large part of this important decision for their family.  Because the schools have such a wonderful record, The Woodlands has been minimally impacted on the overall real estate challenges.  I am grateful to our school faculty and administration for creating such an important value for our real estate buyers and sellers.
  
  Give and take care, Kathi Frank
  (936) 441-1314 home office and cell phone
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  • Kathi Frank
  • Barbara Holt
  • The Woodlands real e
  • The Woodlands school
  • CISD
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• Original Air Date: 1/22/2009 6:00 PM UTC

  The Bully Free Classroom

  Barbara Holt, Safety and Violence Prevention Consultant, will share her expertise about creating tools for a safe school culture. Her company, Barbara Holt Facilitators Inc, conduct training for a wide range of clients on the subjects: "i-Safe America" Internet Safety; Service Learning; Exploring Cultural Diversity in Schools; and Building Developmental Assets in School Communities and other topics. Come learn what you can do to keep your school safe.
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  • Tags:
  • Barbara Holt
  • Kathi Frank
  • Internet Safety
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Safe School Culture
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• Date / Time: 1/18/2009 2:26 AM UTC

  We are not in the Top 25 - Thank goodness!

  Good evening Neighbors,
  
  Although this blog is primarily a community blog linked with The Woodlands Talk Radio Show, when I read the US News story below - I was mighty glad that we are no where near that list.  See link below:
  
  http://www.usnews.com/blogs/the-home-front/2009/1/15/americas-top-25-home-foreclosure-cities.html
  
  In fact, the national news has many real estate buyers and sellers fooled into thinking that the entire national real estate market is crumbling.  The truth is that it is affected -- but not severely.  The Woodlands real estate market just reached the tipping point of being what is deemed a "buyer's market".  Experts claim that an average market time of six months is a balanced market.  When homes stay on the market less, it is a seller's market and that is what our community has become accustomed to experiencing.
  
  Real estate sellers in our area do need to carefully price their home and stage it well to compete with the growing inventory.  However, with the technology tools available to us and the seller's willingness to price/stage agressively - homes are selling extremely well.  That means if you overprice or fail to dress your house for success, you may linger on the market for more than 6 months.

  All in all, foreclosure in Montgomery County is a rare occaision.  For those that want to consider wealth building by purchasing homes to hold and rent, this is an exceptional opportunity.  Be sure to work with a real estate agent that knows how to crunch the numbers with you to assure positive cash flow.  (that takes years of experience)  But with careful acquisition of the property and carefully selected tenants, there has never been a better time to get your money out of the stock market and into an investment that never loses all it's value. 

   

  Don't you wish you would have bought real estate six months ago rather than keeping your money in a stock portfolio?  It is not too late.  In fact, the increase in inventory is continuing to motivate sellers into taking lower prices.  You and I can negotiate a real wealth-building acquisition right away.  Are you ready?

  • Tags:
  • The Woodlands real e
  • foreclosure in Montg
  • real estate buyers
  • real estate sellers
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• Date / Time: 1/15/2009 8:15 PM UTC

  Ken Brand talks about technology in real estate

  Learn what you can expect from today's real estate agent as you listen in to the conversation between Kathi Frank, the host of this show, and Ken Brand, sales manager for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands.
  
  Topics ranged from the basic tools that every agent should offer real estate buyers and sellers - to the most current, cutting-edge technologies that clients can request from their representative. 
  
  Buyers have the ability to look at properties months or even years prior to actually making a purchase.  When it is simply a "maybe" in their mind and they are simply gathering information, it makes sense to connect with an agent that can set them up with automated listing information.  That way, the future buyer has a "go-to" person that can answer their questions much better than a google search.
  
  Sellers have evern a wider range of technology that can serve them.  From carefully and artfully taken photos - to narrated videos posted on YouTube; there is a wide range of opportunites a seller can expect their agent to use to sell their home. 
  
  I won't try to go into detail in this blog.  You will simply need to listen to the program to learn all the best ways to find the perfect real estate agent.  This information will be helpful to those outside of The Woodlands - Montgomery County area too.  So go learn about what techno-savvy are doing in today's business.
  
  As I promised you on the show, I will wrap up this blog post with contact information for Ken Brand.  You can reach him at any of the websites listed below:
  http://www.Kens411.com
  http://www.BrandCandid.com
  http://www.Twitter.com/KenBrand
  http://www.YouTube.com/KenBrand
  
  The truth is, this is only a "short list" of places you will find Ken socializing and sharing his Genius.  In fact, you will find him on http://www.AgentGenius.com   What better evidence do you need of his brilliance???
  
  Talk to me about what you want to see, hear and discuss on The Woodlands Talk Radio.
  
  Give and take care, Kathi
  
  
  • Tags:
  • The Woodlands
  • Ken Brand
  • Kathi Frank
  • The Woodlands Real E
  • buyers
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